Well, more updates.

I’ve just finished the first draft of The Alchemist’s Secret, which is the next book in the Zero sequence. I meant to write it a great deal sooner, and I was surprised to discover it had actually been two years since the last book came out, but … well, it’s off to the editor’s now. There will be a great deal of smoothing out, as the book is designed to interlink with The Zero Secret and The Family Secret, but I think that will be doable without any major rewrites. (Touch wood).

I’m just waiting on the third set of edits for The Apprentice Mistress and the first for The Burning World, but I’m hoping to get those fairly soon.

I drew up the plan for The Many-Angled World – which will be the third and final book in the Mystic Albion trilogy, following The Stranded and The Land of Always Summer, but I have decided it needs some more time to germinate. Accordingly, the next book I intend to write will be The Flight Of Werner Von Braun, a stand-alone alternate history novel. It forms part of the backstory for The Twilight Of The Gods series, otherwise known as the Nazi Civil War, but is intended to be more or less completely stand-alone. All you really need to know is that Hitler did not declare war on the United States in 1941, leading to America staying out of the European War, a German victory over the USSR and now an uneasy Cold War between the Third Reich and a British/American alliance. It is now 1949, and Adolf Hitler is dying. His cronies are now positioning themselves for the inevitable struggle that will follow his death.

I hope that sounds interesting.

In other news, you can pre-order The Land of Always Summer and The Firelighters in audio format now. You can also purchase paperback copies of The Lone World and Judgement Day through Amazon.

My friends also been busy. Dale Cozort has brought out two more snapshot novels – The King’s Fifth and James T Smoot’s Cross Time Petting Zoo: A Snapshot Anthology – and two short novels There Will Always Be An England and Through the Wild Gate. They are all worth a read.

Matthew Quinn has been expanding his SubStack, where he discusses his writing progress and offers commentary on various movies and television franchises; I wrote him a guest post focused on Galactica 1980. His Battle for the Wastelands series (military steampunk) is well underway, and he’s currently working on the third novel in The Long War (urban sci-fi/horror).

Emily Sorensen has dropped the price of her Black Magic Academy short novel and it is well worth a look, as it combines magic school themes with a fairy tale ethos.

Anyway, back to work. Enjoy!